The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Patience Ward (1629 - 1696)
Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28702?docPos=66 Relevant locations: Residence at Manor of Tanshelf, PontefractRelationships: Patience Ward was a donor to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)
Stag-Beetle or Flying
Hart, as they are called in
ginia
Sort, the Horns near an Inch and half long. Of its shrill chirping,
see the Phil. Trans. N° 127Flying Stags; it hath its Name
from the Horns, which are
branched exactly like the Stag's. These are
of Patience Ward Esq
A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708
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